CVE-2008-5093

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTTP Protocol Stack (HTTPSTK) in Novell eDirectory before 8.8 SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Novell eDirectory: through 8.8; 8.0, 8.5.12a, 8.5.27, 8.6.2, 8.7, 8.7.1 (+18)

References

http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020785
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46667
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020785
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46667

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